Episode 53: We Do Not Have Time For An Existential Crisis Right Now

Animorphs #53: The Answer

In this episode:

• Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #53, The Answer for, like, a really long time

• The most important answer of all: how tall is Jake?

• Actually it’s mostly discussion about the tragedy of Jake, but also:

• We celebrate the triumphant return of Applegrant

• Jenny explains Jake’s last name

• Visser One’s bad management comes home to roost

• The sudden appearance of new factions and the retconning of old ones

• The proposal scene

• Rachel’s missing pieces

• Fridging

• The politics of being a Taxxon

• Seerow’s Kindness

• How Jake gets to the point where he does that thing that he does in this one

• The trolley problem

• Real soldiering and what it could do to you

• Aughties moments

• Gray predicts the final Animorphs book